No view to north. D.A.R.V. brings me very near to an acceptable aligment.And PHD2, as also EKOS requires at least a good first align to the NCP before you can even use it.
So D.A.R.V. is - in my opinion - an elementary tool.
Until I detected D.A.R.V, I never could get my mount aligned correctly on my balcony. It is so simple and yet practical.
Also a very famous windows competitor application (APT), which I cannot use on my Linux devices, including the astroberry (based on Raspberry Pi), implemented the method.
Tracking on.
Take photo and capture / solve, slew to south/dec zero, take a DARV photo, correct azimuth…
Slew to east/dec zero, take a DARV-Photo, correct altitude…